It was the middle of the night when the phone call came. Gazelle Sharmahd was woken up by her mother, who told her that her father, Jamshid, was calling from...
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Hundreds of German police have used batons and pepper spray to quell crowds targeting an Eritrean cultural festival in the central town of Giessen. The...
Switzerland and Austria have signed a declaration of intent to join the European air defence system Sky Shield. The system was initiated by Germany following...
Eighty-five years after Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Munich’s main synagogue, construction workers have found rubble from the building in a...
A court in southern Germany has sentenced an Eritrean asylum seeker to life for stabbing two teenage girls, one of them fatally. The 27-year-old man...
France is on a knife edge. Holding its breath as unrest spreads across the country, bursting out of the banlieues – the often socially-neglected suburbs...
While other countries are trying to restrict migration, the German parliament has passed a radical new law to attract migrant workers to Germany. That means...
A spate of mass brawls in German outdoor swimming pools has led to calls for better security at the popular summer bathing spots. As temperatures soar across...
A German woman who joined the Islamic State (IS) group has been jailed for nine years for crimes including keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave. The defendant was...
German archaeologists are thrilled to have dug up a Bronze Age sword more than 3,000 years old which is extraordinarily well preserved. The bronze sword with...
